Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 92
For the Mouse was swimming away from her as hard as it could go, and making quite a commotion in the pool as it went.
Who acts: Mouse, terrier, swimming · What happens: swim away, go, make · To what, where: commotion, pool
This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mouse, terrier, swimming), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 5 swimming | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Mouse | det |
| 3 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 swimming | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 swimming | aux |
| 5 | swimming | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 making | csubj |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 swimming | advmod |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 her | case |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 swimming | obl |
| 9 | as | as | ADV | _ | 10 hard | advmod |
| 10 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 swimming | advmod |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 go | mark |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 go | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 go | aux |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 hard | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 making | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 making | cc |
| 17 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 18 | quite | quite | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 commotion | det:predet |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 commotion | det |
| 20 | commotion | commotion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 making | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 pool | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 pool | det |
| 23 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 making | obl |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 went | mark |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 went | nsubj |
| 26 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 making | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 making | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swim away | past · progressive | the Mouse | from Alice; away, hard property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from she=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | go | could | terrier | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | make | gerund | swimming | quite commotion | the pool | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset commotion=Product | |||
| 4 | go | past | terrier | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Project Gutenberg book 11 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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